"That" album

[Soilwork]

OK.. so the debate about whether "Adore" by the pumpkins was good or bad brought up the subject of the popular bands with "that" album where the fans just sat back and scratched their heads.

Where the band broke the mold, did something totally different and fell flat on their faces either critically or commercailly.

"Adore" was a bomb, but many core fans still love that album. Billy Corgan has suggested that he fucked it up by pulling back at the last minute and not doing what he wanted to do.

But every legendary band has them...

Lets name some (and say if you like it or not)


Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (I like about half.. the rest sounds like Linsay Buckingham on coke at 5AM hiding in his closet recording with a Sears tape recorder.)

U2 - Pop (um... again.. I like bits and pieces... I understand why it flopped)

Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (love it)

Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac (love Kid A but not too fond of Amnesiac...)

Madonna - American Life (quite like it)

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (for the record, no... hate that album)

Metallica - St. Anger (ew.. stink..)

Judas Priest - Turbo (it's REALLY pop, but it's the record that made me wanna come out)

Bob Dylan - Self Portrait (zzzzzzzzzzzzzz)

B-52s - Bouncing Off the Sattellites (I love them.. not his album.. sounds like B-sides and half-finished solo albums)

Beatles - White Album (no.. Not really)

Def Leppard - Slang (my favorite one, to be honest)

Moby - Animal rights (what the fuck was he thinking?)

Sinead O'Connor - Am I not your girl? (it's a fun album.. now that I'm used to it... but at the time I didn't get it at all)

Eurythmics - Savage (at the time I was a bit confused but I still love that album)

Duran Duran - Thank You. (no, thanks)

REM - New Adventures in Hi Fi (If I want to hear your answering machine recordings, I'll wait for your box set.)

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Still not sure... ask me in ten years)

 

[Tigryto]

A few more...


Queen - Hot Space (Queen goes disco...)

Aerosmith - Just Push Play (The toxic twins playing empty pop ballads)

Neil Young - Trans (80's computer era experimentation)

 

[David DeVour]

Blondie- AutoAmerican (jazz, classical, rap, broadway, country, reggae, and Mid-Eastern)

At the end of "Follow Me", from a musical, you can hear drummer Clem Burke say, "We're not really gonna put this on the record, are we?"

 

[Crashdown]

Aerosmith - Just Push Play (The toxic twins playing empty pop ballads)

Alanis Morissette - So-Called Chaos (wasn't that bad, but flopped)

Iron Maiden - The X-Factor & Virtual XI (the Blaze Bayley years - ew.)

Marylin Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque (just, bad)

Pearl Jam - Binaural & Riot Act (just boring)

Tori Amos - Beekeeper (....)

Bon Jovi - Bounce, Have a Nice Day & the new album (no comment)

Depeche Mode - everything after Ultra

Sevendust - Next

 

[Soilwork]

few more that I thought of..

Blondie - The Hunter (Auto American was odd but it was a hit.. The Hunter was a Tribal thing.. and a bomb)

Donna Summer - The Wanderer (strange new wave electro record. )

Kiss - The Elder (what were they thinking?)

Pat Benetar - Real Love (Blues album with a jazz orchestra. um.. ok...)

Barbra Streisand - Til I loved you ( she sang a duet with her then-boyfriend Don Johnson... I mean.. yeah.. THAT Don Johnson.)

 

[G-Lexington]

Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion Live. Or, as I call it, "It may be a good idea t o record Dave Gahan one more time before he kills himself." Except he didn't.

Michael Jackson - Invincible. Was it horrible? No. It had a couple good songs. But give me $30 million and 5 years, and even *I* can record an album with a couple good songs.

Cars - Door to Door. "We don't care anymore, and neither should you."

Art of Noise - Seduction of Claude Debussy. The sound of four people disappearing up their own backsides.

Prince - Lovesexy. God told him not to release the Black Album. Possibly. But I'm pretty sure it was someone else who told him to release this one in its stead.

Liz Phair - Liz Phair. There's nothing wrong with indulging your inner popsmith. Unless your inner popsmith isn't any good.

Nik Kershaw - The Works. Nik Kershaw might have needed help at this point, but the help should not have come in the form of Peter Wolf.

Matthew Sweet - Blue Sky on Mars. If you're going to be a pop-rock songsmith, you should be aware that an album isn't a hit with 12 b-sides.

Lex

 

[Soilwork]

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock. (kinda like Talk Talk after lots of drugs and getting caught in an elevator.)

 

[G-Lexington]

^ Am I the only one that thinks Radiohead listens to this album a LOT?!

Lex

 

[Crashdown]

Guns n' Roses - Chinese Democracy


How could I forget about that!?

[SIZE=-1]The production costs for the record overall are around $17 million and Axl's working on it for over a decade now.

Newest rumored release date: 15 Nov 2007. (yeah as if... )
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[G-Lexington]

I think we may see Chinese democracy before we see Chinese Democracy.

Lex

 

[Soilwork]

Chinese Democracy will never come out. They probably haven't even recorded anything for it. The rumors of $17 million are probably just rumors.

I don't think any label would let it go on for that long, especially when a hair metal band from the 80s is doomed to fail.

Axl Rose isn't a star so much as a punch line now.

 

[Yeehaw]

from the top of my head, Jewe's 0304 (dunno how to make of this album but it was definitely a drastic change for her, glad she went back to her folk pop roots afterwards).

someone mentioned Alanis's So-Called Chaos, it is not "that" album, she didnt change her music style in any way on that album, only the lyrics might be a little bit more positive.

 

[Soilwork]

from the top of my head, Jewe's 0304 (dunno how to make of this album but it was definitely a drastic change for her, glad she went back to her folk pop roots afterwards).

An excellent example. Jewel's pop-tart album.

someone mentioned Alanis's So-Called Chaos, it is not "that" album, she didnt change her music style in any way on that album, only the lyrics might be a little bit more positive.

yeah, it bombed I think because people wanna hear Alanis be bitter.

 

[Crashdown]

^So-called chaos bombed because it was produced by John Shanks.

 

[evilest]

Marilyn Manson - Eat me Drink Me (good but odd)
Pink - Try This (tried to hard, but I'm not Dead it a great one)
Missy Elliot - The Cookbook (decent but distinctly average effort form her)
Kelis - Kelis Was Here (somewhere it went blah)
Garbage - Beautiful Garbage (Love it but easily their worst)